Thank you for your respect. I also grew up in the Soviet Union and I was the witness of various color revolutions, incited and manufactured in the former Soviet Republics by CIA, NED and the US State Department. Mi6 was involved as well. Litva was one of the victims - you guys really had the 'Syria Lite' "moderate rebels" case, where people were sniped by their own sold-out provocateurs. I am sure you probably know no more than anti-Russia propaganda from the Atlanticists lets you. However, in your country there were courageous people who witnessed what happened and tried to make the truth known or at least tried to investigate. You are not one of them. These courageous people were sacked and sentenced by Lithuanian government for "pro-Russian position". No, that has nothing to do with Bolshevism, Darius. It has to do with RUSSOPHOBIA and HATRED of Russia (you were duped to believe that it was against Soviet Union - no, the Atlanticists and Anglosphere maniacs want you to actually HATE another nation up to the point of killing them all). So, here is what happened in Vilnius:
"On March 11, 1990, the Supreme Soviet of Lithuania declared the restoration of independence of the republic, but the central authorities of the USSR declared this decision to be contrary to the Constitution. The deteriorating economic situation forced the Lithuanian government to raise retail prices significantly (3-6 times) on January 7, 1991. Unsanctioned protests began in the republic, after which fighters from special units and airborne troops (VDV), who occupied a number of strategic facilities, were moved in. Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania Juozas Ermalavicius declared the establishment of the Committee of National Salvation as the only legitimate authority in Lithuania.
On January 12, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of Lithuania declared that the USSR was the aggressor, and instructed the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the government to form "a temporary management of the defense of the Republic of Lithuania. Republican radio and television sharply increased tension, round the clock calling the population for armed struggle against "occupants, Russian invaders", because allegedly "military operations" were going on in Lithuania.
By the evening of January 12, 1991, the Committee for National Salvation of Lithuania appealed to the workers of the republican TV and radio broadcasting with a proposal to stop the broadcasts which "provoke fratricidal conflict", but their appeal was not accepted. Then, the Committee for National Salvation of Lithuania called on the working druzhinas of Vilnius to take control of the buildings of the TV and Radio Committee and the TV center in order to stop inciting the population to mass civil clashes and bloodshed, and simultaneously appealed to the command of the internal troops of the USSR Interior Ministry and the head of Vilnius garrison to assist the druzhinas in establishing control over the national TV and radio broadcasting. Two groups were formed from the military units in order to ensure public security and law and order, prevent mass disturbances, disarm the militants and protect unarmed members of the druzhiny. Each consisted of 190 servicemen, 14 armored vehicles and about 50 druzhinniki. To overcome the barricades erected around the buildings of the TV and Radio Committee and the TV center, one group was given four and the other three tanks.
On the night of January 13, a column of Soviet armored vehicles headed toward the center of Vilnius. Thousands of people had gathered at the TV tower and dozens of cameramen, including those from Western countries, had taken their positions. Journalists were broadcasting live until two o'clock in the morning, when military equipment surrounded the building and the TV tower, and the Alpha group, under orders, occupied the facility and stopped the national broadcasts.
During the clashes between the protesters and the military during the attempt to take over the TV tower, 14 people died and more than 600 were wounded. Among the dead was an Alfa special forces officer who was shot in the back.
Intelligence officials claimed that the clashes were the result of a large-scale provocation, and that all the dead were shot by snipers.
The next day, the events in Vilnius resonated widely around the world, with virtually all media outlets spreading the same thing, as if by assignment: the military had massacred the center of the Lithuanian capital.
The USSR Prosecutor's Office, despite the active opposition of the Lithuanian authorities, managed to investigate the events near the Vilnius TV tower. In the information note signed by Prosecutor General of the USSR Nikolay Trubin "About progress of investigation of the criminal case on events that took place in Vilnius on January 13, 1991" sent to the Supreme Council of the USSR, it was said that numerous proofs "testify that the majority of victims at the TV tower actually died not from shots of soldiers and tanks, but from shots of fighters, cars and other reasons, including the ones not connected with the events".
Judging by the direction of wound channels indicated in the certificate of the head of the Lithuanian Forensic Medical Bureau, "six victims were killed as a result of 1-7 shots to each of them from different points, including shots from above and in the back, that is, not by servicemen during direct face-to-face encounter, but by fighters during their shooting from the TV tower building and from roofs of the nearest houses".
Audryus Butkyavichyus, the head of the Lithuanian regional security department in 1990-1991, later said in several interviews that by his order snipers of "Sajudis" (social and political movement for secession of the Lithuanian SSR from the USSR) were placed on the roofs of the nearby buildings of the TV tower and shot people. The Lithuanian law enforcement agencies did not investigate this matter.
The official version of events in Vilnius on January 13, 1991 says that the Soviet soldiers deliberately killed 13 unarmed persons and one special forces officer while taking control of the TV tower. Any doubts about the official version are criminally prosecuted in Lithuania.
The leader of the Socialist People's Front of Lithuania Algirdas Paleckis is the only Lithuanian politician, who questioned the official position of Lithuanian authorities about the tragic events near Vilnius TV center in January 1991. In February 2011, in a radio interview about the events near the Vilnius TV tower, Paleckis said: "As it turns out now, their own people shot at their own people."
This opinion cost him criminal prosecution. Paleckis was the first person convicted under Article 170 of the Lithuanian Criminal Code, "Denial of Soviet Occupation," but a court acquitted him in January 2012 for lack of corpus delicti. "
